NARCIS:

RESEARCH INFORMATION SERVICES ON A NATIONAL SCALE

Arnoud Jippes, Wilko Steinhoff, Elly Dijk

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

KNAW Research Information

Open Repositories 2010, Madrid, Juli 6th

> The Dutch information infrastructure

> User survey

> NARCIS services

> Future developments

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PRESENTATION OVERVIEW

ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

AMSTERDAM

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Research Information Department

National focal point of research related information

INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE NETHERLANDS

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DutchResearch

Database

METISuniversities

NationalResearchCouncil

UniversitaireRepositories

DANSDatasets

UniversitaireRepositoriesRepositories

NARCIS(DAI)

Internet en services : Driver-EU | Google (Scholar) | World Wide Science

E-DepotNationalLibrary

Research Information (CRIS) Publications & Datasets

Researchinstitutes

DIGITAL AUTHOR IDENTIFIER

Connects publications, datasets and research activities

Names not unique and many variants of author names: we

need a key.

3 variants � one DAI

Hoekstra, Arjen Y. info:eu-repo/dai/nl/148315151

Hoekstra, Arjen Ysbert

Hoekstra, A.Y.

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NARCIS PORTAL USERS

Category Origin of NARCIS use in %

Research university 36%

Research institution 4%

University of Applied Sciences 8%

Government 6%

Not for profit 2%

Hospital 1%

Business 11%

Media 1%

Other/unknown 32%

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CONCLUSIONS SURVEY

> Half of the NARCIS users from research domain

> Most demand for dissertations. Also OA publications and

information about research and expertise

> Appreciated: downloading, one-stop-shop; linking persons to

publications

> Most requested feature:

research information from abroad

tools for text-mining and visualisations of relationships

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NARCIS Suite

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NARCIS services

>Researcher pages

>Publication lists

>RSS feeds

>Reference tools

>Tag clouds on researcher pages

>Publication widget

>National provision for search engines like Google Scholar

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RESEARCHER PAGES

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PUBLICATION LISTS

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REFERENCE TOOLS

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PUBLICATION WIDGET

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FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

>Statistics on the Usage Repositories (SURE)

>Communities of researchers

>ORE resource maps

>MyNARCIS Portal

>Improved tag cloud/Expert finding

>More export formats

>Index the object files

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INFORMATION TYPES

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